World Interim 1 Flashcards
Ming Dynasty Accomplishments (300 year reign)
Capital @ Beijing
Walled palace complex AKA the Forbidden City
No one could enter w/out permission
Great Wall of China
Defensive strat against Oriats
Trade with the West
Emperor Hongwu
Surveillance
Purged “corrupt” govt officials
Consolidation of power
Abolished chief minister & revised legal code
Emperor had total control over the people
Zheng He
Chinese Explorer
7 expeditions, 37 countries
Mateo Ricco
spread of religion
Tried to convert Chinese people to Christianity
1st foreigner to enter Forbidden City
Xi Jinping
(creating a legacy, mimicking the Ming Dynasty)
Government
Socialist
Autocratic Dictatorship
Winnie the Pooh
HEAVY surveillance
Changed the law so he can be president for life (Consolidation of Power)
Trying to get rid of private education (tutoring)
The Uighurs
Muslim minority population
Genocide occuring against them
“Re education camps”
Actually internment (prison) camps
Taiwan Situation
Russia & Ukraine similarities
Cyberattacks every day
Hong Kong
The region has democratic values
Xi wants to take control back early
Transfer of power from England
Young people protesting
Fear of surveillance
Samurai Warriors
Loyal service to death
Committed suicide if they were captured
Shogun Rule
Gov. in Japan was run by the military (family of Samurai)
Golden Age (Japan)
In Kyoto
New forms of artwork arose
Ink splash paintings
Zen influence in a lot of works
“Zen Buddhism”
Japan Today
Population is actively dying out
Low birth rate
Due to:
Strict Immigration laws (not helping to repopulate country)
Extreme work culture
Too expensive
Joseon Kingdom
Hermit Kingdom
Isolated
Led by King Seonjo
Father of his country
Accomplishments of Joseon Kingdom
Hangul alphabet
Increase literacy
Unity among people
Rain Gauge
Benefited farmers (dominant class)
Agricultural economy
Led to King Sujeon w a surplus of food
In the event of a natural disaster, people relied on him
Decreased threat of rebellion
Society of Joseon Kingdom
Rigid Caste system
Majority of population was peasants
Agricultural economy
Neo-Confucian Ideology
Official Ideology of the Joseon Kingdom
Bringing order to heaven and Earth
HARMONY & UNITY
Fall of the Joseon Kingdom
Invasion by Japan (1910-1945)
War on Korean Culture
Forbidden to speak Korean
Historical docs burned
Art destroyed
Displacement of natives
Korean women sex slaves
Result after WWII
Massive divisions in Korea
Communists
Nationalists
North Korea Today
Propaganda country
Forced labor & concentration camps
Infraction against gov. = effect on future generations
Isolation
Stagnant population growth
Collectivist culture
Communist Dictatorship
Autocratic
Jobs assigned
South Korea Today
Collectivist culture
Highly educated society
#1 priority
Homogenous society
Densely populated
Issues:
Nuclear threat from NK
Too busy to care
Birth rate going down
Religion going down
Alcohol consumption
Plastic surgery
Death in video game cafes
Great Zimbabwe
“House of Stone”
Power & prestige of Empire
Controlled passages to gold fields + Trading cities
Control over resources
Trade with Asia = economic globalization
Mali Empire
Timbuktu
Library w/ 1,000s of books
Wealth of knowledge
The place people went to become educated
Mans Musa
(Mali Empire Ruler)
Extended boundaries of the Empire
Pilgrimage to Mecca
Caused Mali to become economically and politically stable
Mali Today
After 2002, much less stable of a country
Increased poverty rates
Slavery out in the open
Armed Islamic groups
Russian Mercenaries
Girls stripped of right to education
European Feudalism
Divided class structure (born into, couldn’t change)
Resulted in class struggles
No change occured
Monarchies thriving
Bubonic Plague
Buboes
Swelling glands
80% death rate within 3 days
Pneumonic
Lungs, coughing up blood
90-95% death rate within a few days
HIGHLY contagious
Septicemic
Skin turns purple/black
Least common
Rapid death
Plague Doctors
Contracted thru gov.
Treated victims regardless of social status
“Bad smelling air”
Symbol of death
Effects of the Black Death
Religious hysteria
Flagellants
Whips
Plague = God’s punishment
Massacre of Jews
Economic effects
Shortage of labor
Rising prices
Inflation
1325 - peasants revolt against Catholic Church
Europe Today
European Union
Economic/Political Organization
Brexit
Eurozone
Collection of countries that use the Euro
Economic stability/globalization
Shengen
Removal of passport checks among these countries
NATO
Military/Defensive Organization
Issues:
War in Ukraine
Refugees
Grain shortage
Oil shortage
Guns Germs & Steel
Jared Diamond
Inequality of power stems from an area’s geographical advantages or disadvantages.
Doesn’t stem from race!
Geographical luck
Race
Social construct
Changing definition
Subjective
NOT biological
Does not = ethnicity
Used frequently after AST
Slavery
Race based slavery & Chattel slavery
Europeans viewed Africans as less civilized
Failure to enslave Indigenous people
Relationship between Europeans and Africans
Europe: traded guns for people
Africa: traded people for guns
Guns = Able to conquer other tribes = Able to sell more people for more guns
Middle Passage
Profitable to use slave population, built economies
12.5 mil ppl
21-90 day voyage
Disease, economy, & technology
Disease: smallpox killed indigenous population before they could work
Economy: sustained relationship between Africa and Europe, PROFIT
Technology: guns
Slave Prison Forts
Elmina Castle & Cape Coast Castle
Prison fort death rate was about 66%
Door of no return
Portugal, Brazil & the Slave Trade
Portuguese empire
Brazil main colony
Started AST (mid 1400s)
Began w/ kidnapping Africans
Scientific Revolution in the Middle East
(800-1300)
Ibn al-Haytham: Camera Obscura
Al-Zahrawi: Surgical Instruments
Ibn Firnas: Flying contraption
Geocentric vs. Heliocentric Theory
Geocentric = Planets revolve around Earth
Heliocentric = Planets revolve around Sun
Nicolaus Copernicus
Credited with start of the Heliocentric theory
Tycho Brache
Built on Copernicus
Mapped the stars and movement of planets
Johannes Kepler
Proved Heliocentric POV
Math and Evidence
Studied elliptical orbits
LOGIC AND REASON
Used to save mother from witch trials!!
Galileo
Created his own telescope
Observational
Viewed craters and mountains on the moon
Proved the Earth is similar to the moon
Put on trial by Catholic church
Issac Newton
Theory of MOTION
Universal gravitation
WIde cultural impact
Ex. Voltare (French magazine)
